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Reconstruction
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Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
Allowed Southern States to rejoin the union as long as 10 % of votes are admitted. -
Lincoln's Re-election
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Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
Bill that required more than half of a state's votes to sign a loyalty oat before the state could be readmitted. -
13th Admendment approved and ratified by congress
Slaves were no longer slaves -
Congress creates Fredmens Bereau
A welfare agency that helped formerly enslaved people become full citizens -
Lame-Duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first Black code
Made black people second- class citizens. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical republicans
Faught for equal rights for black people -
1st 2nd 3rd reconstruction act
The first otherwise known as the military reconstruction act divided the south into five military districts and gave a lot of poweer to the commanders. -
Johnson impeached
The congress impeached him by declaring the Tenure act. This act prohibited a president from removing any executive department officer who had been appointed by a previous president. -
14th Amendment ratified
granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S which meant freed slaves -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Work to remove vestiges of the after math of slavery -
Sharecropping
landowner rents a piece of land to farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows, The share cropper then pays they're debt after they;re done harvesting. -
The 15 amendment ratified
Allowed African American men to vote -
Enforcement Acts
criminal codes that protected the rights of blacks voting -
Freedmen's Burea terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
Allowed many former Confederates to run for public office. -
Lame- Duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared president; Reconsruction ends
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Comprimise 1877
pulled federal troops out of the south
